Rizzoli & Isles (2010)
Rizzoli & Isles is a 2010 crime series created by Janet Tamaro. It stars Angie Harmon, Sasha Alexander and Jordan Bridges.
Detective Jane Rizzoli is the only woman in Boston homicide, all elbows and hard edges. Dr. Maura Isles is the chief medical examiner, precise, poised, and more at ease with the dead than the living. Their friendship is the real engine here, two opposite temperaments who lower their guard only around each other and pool a cop's instinct with a scientist's rigor to close the city's ugliest cases. Adapted from Tess Gerritsen's novels, the series balances autopsy-table forensics with the banter, the families, and the messy private lives of its two leads.
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What is Rizzoli & Isles about?
Detective Jane Rizzoli is the only woman in Boston homicide, all elbows and hard edges. Dr. Maura Isles is the chief medical examiner, precise, poised, and more at ease with the dead than the living. Their friendship is the real engine here, two opposite temperaments who lower their guard only around each other and pool a cop's instinct with a scientist's rigor to close the city's ugliest cases. Adapted from Tess Gerritsen's novels, the series balances autopsy-table forensics with the banter, the families, and the messy private lives of its two leads.
When was Rizzoli & Isles released?
Rizzoli & Isles was released on 12 July 2010.
How many episodes does Rizzoli & Isles have?
Rizzoli & Isles has 105 episodes across 7 seasons.
Who made Rizzoli & Isles?
Rizzoli & Isles was created by Janet Tamaro.
Where can I watch Rizzoli & Isles?
Rizzoli & Isles is available on Netflix, Peacock, Peacock Premium, Philo, Pluto TV and Google Play.
Where to watch Rizzoli & Isles
Stream: Netflix, Peacock, Peacock Premium, Philo
Watch free: Pluto TV
Rent: Google Play
Buy: Amazon, AppleTV, Fandango at Home, Google Play
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Cast
- Angie Harmon as Detective Jane Rizzoli
- Sasha Alexander as Dr. Maura Isles
- Jordan Bridges as Frankie Rizzoli Jr.
- Bruce McGill as Detective Vince Korsak
- Lorraine Bracco as Angela Rizzoli
- Lee Thompson Young as Detective Barry Frost
- Brian Goodman as Sean Cavanaugh
- Idara Victor as Nina Holiday
- Tina Huang as Susie Chang
- Adam Sinclair as Kent Drake
- Colin Egglesfield as Tommy Rizzoli
- Jaime Collaco as Officer Garcia
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A few thoughts on Rizzoli & Isles
Crime fans should try Tess Gerritsen's source novels first, then Stephen King's Mr. Mercedes for a dogged detective hunting a killer. Agatha Christie's Crooked House delivers the sealed-house puzzle in its purest form. On screen, Enola Holmes brings a sharp woman to the deduction game, while the game Disco Elysium turns detective work into a study of the broken person doing it.
Detective procedurals where forensics meets old-fashioned legwork
Rizzoli & Isles pairs a Boston homicide detective with a chief medical examiner, closing cases where a cop's instinct meets a scientist's rigor. These procedurals work the same beat, following sharp investigators through forensics, interviews and legwork, from the labs of CSI: Miami to Sherlock updated in Elementary and the Oxford cases of Endeavour and Lewis.
Cozy whodunit series with a fresh puzzle every week
The lighter half of Rizzoli & Isles is the banter and the puzzle, two friends turning grim casework into something almost cozy. These mystery series keep that inviting tone, dropping a clever sleuth into a fresh whodunit each week, from a sunny Caribbean island and an English village to Rex Stout's armchair genius.
The classic detective novels behind the procedural
Rizzoli & Isles began on the page, adapted from Tess Gerritsen's crime novels. If you want the detective fiction behind the format, these books deliver the pleasures whole, from Agatha Christie's tightly plotted whodunits and Stephen King's Mr. Mercedes to the teenage sleuthing of Nancy Drew's earliest cases.
Crime-solving you play through in games and comics
Beyond the autopsy table, Rizzoli & Isles is about reading a scene and following the evidence. These games and comics hand that detective work to you, from the deduction-heavy streets of Disco Elysium and a fairy-tale noir in The Wolf Among Us to the deadly cat-and-mouse of Death Note.